[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
Re: [Qemu-trivial] [PATCH] vmxnet3: Pad short frames to minimum size (60
From: |
Dmitry Fleytman |
Subject: |
Re: [Qemu-trivial] [PATCH] vmxnet3: Pad short frames to minimum size (60 bytes) |
Date: |
Sun, 24 Aug 2014 16:27:40 +0300 |
On Aug 24, 2014, at 16:10 PM, Michael Tokarev <address@hidden> wrote:
> 24.08.2014 16:28, Dmitry Fleytman wrote:
>
>> Hi Michael,
>>
>> I’m the maintainer of vmxnet3/pvscsi devices in QEMU. Thanks for CC’ing me.
>
> Maybe you can add yourself to MAINTAINERS file as well? :)
Yes, this should be done.
How we do this? Should I send a patch for MAINTAINETRS?
> I dunno if that's actually needed, but at least this should
> stop "strain" patches like this to be sent to -trivial alone... ;)
>
>> I think this patch is correct and needed.
>>
>> As we saw a few times already on different operating systems,
>> vmware drivers expect short packets to be padded as required
>> by corresponding RFC. Therefore this patch fixes a real bug.
>
> Okay, since there's no entry for vmxnet in MAINTAINERS, and with
> your blessing, and since this is a rather specific device which
> is not in common use, I'll apply it to -trivial, for now, unless
> you want to pick it up and send a pull request for it.
-trivial is good enough for this patch.
>
> Given your description, I think it should be Cc: address@hidden
>
>> Reviewed-by: Dmitry Fleytman <address@hidden>
>
> Thanks,
>
> /mjt